Catholic poet, Dana Gioia, writes in First Things about the absence of Catholics in the American finearts.”The great and present danger to American literature is the growing homogeneity of our writers. . . Often raised in several places in no specific cultural or religious community, educated with no deep connection to a particular region, history, or tradition, and now employed mostly in academia, the American writer is becoming as standardized as the American car . . . It is time to renovate and reoccupy our own tradition . . . ” Read it all here: The Catholic Writer Today

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The Latin Church, which I find myself admiring more and more despite its frequent, astounding imbecilities, has always kept clearly before it the fact that religion is not a syllogism but a poem.— H.L. Mencken

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